SELA 2005: Law and Poverty

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

June 16-19, 2005

Marina Palace Hotel

Av. Delfim Moreira, 630 Leblon

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 22441.000

Phone: (21) 2172-1000

FAX: (21) 2172-1010

Thursday, June 16th

 

9pm Welcome Dinner

             Printer-friendly English Version of the Conference Program—updated (6/13)

             Printer-friendly Spanish Version of the Conference Program—updated (6/13)

 

Friday, June 17th

 

9:00am - 10:30am: Opening Lecture: What is Poverty?

 

Speaker:

 

Ricardo Paes de Barros, Coordinator of the Office of Public Policy Evaluation at the National Institute for Applied Economic Research (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

 

Moderator:

 

Calixto Salomao Filho

 

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11:00am - 1:30pm: Panel 1: The Obligation to Eradicate Poverty

 

Panelists:

 

Richard Brooks

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

             Conference Paper (Portuguese)

 

Javier Couso

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

                                      

Esther Vicente

             Conference Paper (English)—updated (6/1)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Commentator:

 

Robert Burt

 

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3:30pm - 6:00pm: Panel 2: The Institutional Strategies for Eradicating Poverty

 

Panelists:

 

Julieta Lemaitre

             Conference Paper (English)—NEW!

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Pablo Ruiz-Tagle

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Commentator:

 

Lucas Grosman

 

6:15pm: Screening of Favela Rising

 

 

Saturday, June 18th

 

9:30am - 12:00pm: Panel 3: Poor People and the Legal Order

 

Panelists:

 

Fernando Cantuarias Salaverry

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Jaime Malamud Goti

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Commentator:

 

Veronica Undurraga

 

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2:30pm - 5:00pm: Panel 4: The Lawyer’s Role

 

Panelists:

 

Paola Bergallo

             Conference Paper (English)—NEW!

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Myrta Morales-Cruz

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)—updated (05/19)

                                      

Marcos Pinto

             Conference Paper (English)—updated (05/19)

             Conference Paper (Portuguese)

 

Commentator:

 

Noah Novogrodsky

 

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6:00pm - 8:00pm: Roundtable on Democracy in the Americas: Models for Combating Poverty

 

 

Speaker:

                                      

Harald Beyer, Academic Director of the Centro de Estudios Publicos (Santiago, Chile)

 

Moderator:

 

Owen Fiss

 

 

 

Sunday, June 19th

 

9:30am - 12:00pm: Panel 5: Poverty and the International Order

 

Panelists:

 

Alberto Amaral

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Portuguese)

 

Jose Guevara

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

George Priest

             Conference Paper (English)

             Conference Paper (Spanish)

 

Commentator:

 

Diego Zavala

 

 

 

 

Instructions:

 

1. Download a printer-friendly version of the conference program by clicking on the link under Welcome Dinner. The program contains the panel questions and the dinner schedule.

 

2. Scroll down the page and download copies of the conference papers.

 

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